Do you really think the Sherpas are the ones climbing with tons of trash like heaters and espresso machines, or even using oxygen (except maybe for the several thousand feet below the summit? http://www.kwwl.com/story/31983747/2016/05/Monday/how-coffee-machines-have-turned-mount-everest-climb-into-circus The mountain…

It’s the Sherpas doing the cleaning, idiot. https://www.nepalitimes.com/banner/everest-garbage-caravan/ And they risk their lives for a few thousand a year https://www.outsideonline.com/1928326/disposable-man-western-history-sherpas-everest I’m pretty sure if this woman wants to climb the mountain without escorting…

I’m pretty sure the Nepali locals are not the source of the majority of the pollution, and that her opinion as a native of the country matters a lot more than yours.

Also, if you’re in DC for any reason, there’s an interview site at the Reagan Building (near the White House), that had exactly zero wait when I was there. I had an appointment, but about 6 hours later, and happened to be in the building for business and went to see if I could get in early.

Bowser is super corrupt, and I don’t know why she continues to be so popular in DC given that her policies hurt black people. It was like pulling teeth to get the NEAR Act funded, even after the city council fully approved it, because Bowser had her own plan that involved increasing police funding: https://talkpoverty.…

Even though 0.102 is above the legal limit, it seems quite low to be the cause of driving off a cliff... Money is still on this being on purpose.

How is peanut butter a liquid?! It 100% does not conform to the shape of its container unless forced. I call bs.

It was more about how she did it. She was super insistent that it couldn’t possibly be my signature. Now if she just said, “can I see your id”, it would’ve been different...

I had someone in the US do that once, and argue with me that my signature was not the same as the one on the back of my card. They looked almost identical, minus the difference due to the difficulties in signing a piece of plastic. Retrospectively, I should’ve just taken my business elsewhere. Europe they check all…

Unrelated to the color-code system that they’ve imposed, their mac and cheese is awesome (that is all they serve, in many flavors). I used to live two blocks from there.

Me too, and I always put one on my bed anyway to seem civilized, despite always kicking it to the end of the bed. I am taking this as a justification to never put the top sheet on again

Also a DC resident. My pet peeve is the number of people who actually double park (because what is described here is not double parking), blocking entire lanes of traffic for many minutes when there are parallel parking spaces or other places they could pull over within the block. I think parking enforcement needs to…

Especially applies to white people calling the police on POC. Definitely have the DC Mental Health Access Help Line Programmed into my phone (1-888-793-4357), and wish I’d had that years ago for some of the other places I’ve lived. This has some useful resources https://docs.google.com/document/d/1_Y0LwX0uOz-P63FVhV0OF…

I work in a related industry, and just hosted a panel that included someone from FEMA that managed the disaster relief. The issue was more complicated than this makes it sound— FEMA had apparently shipped more than enough fuel to depots on the island pre-hurricane, but there apparently weren’t enough tankers on the…

There was definitely mismanagement in the disaster response, but the fuel issue is more complicated than this makes it sound. I heard from someone in FEMA that they had actually delivered more than enough fuel pre-hurricane. The problem was actually because PR didn’t have enough trucks on the island to distribute the…

I don’t disagree that a lack of attention to PR was due to racism. But, I did hear from someone at DHS that they had actually delivered more than enough fuel pre-hurricane. The problem was actually because PR didn’t have enough trucks on the island to distribute the fuel. DHS delivered a bunch of tankers as quickly…

Sounds like the company should’ve been shut down a very long time ago, with at least two bridges collapsing previously: http://www.miaminewtimes.com/news/fiu-bridge-collapse-construction-firms-accused-of-unsafe-practices-10176596

This sounds like the making for an excellent interview for this site (I now want to know her whole life story, but the local Atlanta news story seems to be the only thing on the internet about her!)

Most interesting museum cafe I’ve been to is probably in my backyard: Mitsitsam Cafe, at the National Museum of the American Indian in DC. It’s a bit pricey, but they cook Native American foods and have everything sorted by region. Where else could you get that?

The audio version is the best! I’m definitely not normally an audiobook person, but Trevor narrating is truly the greatest— the sheer number of accents he puts on is amazing (plus the fact that he speaks like 8 languages). I meant to listen to it in both directions of a long road trip, but became so absorbed in it…